bedizen
verb (used with object)
to dress or adorn in a showy, gaudy, or tasteless manner.
bedizenment
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a word derived from
bedizen.
Example Sentences
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From the Hôtel du Chancelier the winter view over the bright, beautiful city, glittering only yesterday in its winter bedizenment of frost and snow, was changed.
From A Modern Mercenary by K. (Kate) Prichard
Last but not least Leonora had accomplished the bedizenment of the "ladies."
From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree
Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rosepink, artificial bedizenment.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Much in the same way was Cluffe affected over his bedizenment in relation to his own lady-love; but in a calmer and more long-headed fashion.
From The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
